The Ritual Animal
Harvey (Chair of Social Anthropology, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford) Whitehouse
Oxford University Press, 2021
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Copying rituals has allowed cultural groups to proliferate over time. Rare, traumatic rituals produce strong cohesion in small relational groups, whereas daily/weekly rituals produce cohesion in expandable communities. This study presents a theory of how these two ritual modes have influenced history over thousands of years.
- ISBN-13
- 9780199646364
- ISBN-10
- 0199646368
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2021
- Publication date
- 2021-11-25
- Pages
- 252
- Dimensions
- 166x240x24
- Weight
- 542